Airbus wins contract for US space capsule Orion
* Contract worth around 390 mln eur * Orion to fly astronauts into moon orbit * Comes days after European scientists land probe on comet…
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Lockheed Martin Begins Final Assembly Of NASA’s Next Mars Lander
InSight Mars Lander Starts Taking Shape in Clean Room DENVER, Nov. 17, 2014 – Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has started the assembly, test and launch…
Orion Spacecraft Arrives To Cape Canaveral’s Launch Pad 37
Orion Ready for Integration with Delta IV Heavy Rocket The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] built Orion spacecraft has completed its 22-mile, 6-hour journey from the…
Touchdown! Rosetta’s Philae probe lands on comet
ESA’s Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on a comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved. After…
Boeing Stacks Two Satellites to Launch as a Pair
Boeing has successfully mated two 702SP (small platform) satellites in a stacked configuration in preparation for the first-ever conjoined satellite launch. The milestone is a…
Live updates: Rosetta mission comet landing
On 12 November, Rosetta’s Philae probe is set to make the first-ever landing on a comet when it touches down on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Separation of…
U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin Deliver Third MUOS Secure Communications Satellite for Mobile Warfighters
MUOS-3 shipped to Cape Canaveral in advance of January launch SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 6, 2014 – The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] have…
Branson pushes on with spaceship plan despite crash
(AFP) Space tourism venture Virgin Galactic on Tuesday said it was pressing ahead with plans to build a second model of the SpaceShipTwo which crashed…
Rocket plane’s tail activated prematurely in fatal crash
(Reuters) – A team investigating the fatal test-flight crash of a Virgin Galactic passenger spaceship found that its rotating tail, designed to ease reentry into…
Virgin Galactic spaceship crashes during Calif. test flight
(Reuters) – A suborbital passenger spaceship being developed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic company crashed during a test flight on Friday at the Mojave Air…
Virgin Galactic Spaceship Crashes During Test Flight Over Mojave Desert
One person was killed and another suffered major injuries after an aircraft used by Virgin Galactic for space travel experimentation crashed Friday during a test flight,…
U.S. rocket explosion investigation suspects main engine failure
(Reuters) – As Orbital Sciences picks up the pieces, literally and figuratively, after its high-profile rocket launch explosion, accident investigators are looking closely at a…
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